Barça thrashes Racing 7-2 with Raphinha hat-trick and Cancelo double

In this start of the League, Barça's goals are falling out of their pockets. Against Racing, they added their seventh consecutive victory in the championship with a resounding 7-2. Raphinha consolidated his sweet moment with a hat trick after scoring with another pure nine play and converting two of the three maximum penalties committed by the visitors. Cancelo also scored, with two very powerful shots, Gabriel Jesús also did the same and Lamine Yamal rounded off the task. Maguette Gueye and Zabiri, meanwhile, scored for the Cantabrians. The first, after a defensive failure. The second, after Szczesny, a replacement for Joan García who did not play again after the break as a precaution, when he stumbled while going for a ball at the end of the first half, made a mess with the ball at his feet at the most inopportune moment.

In fact, it did little good for Racing to choose to strengthen its defense to stand at the Spotify Camp Nou. Perhaps it took a little longer than in the last games, but Barça did not miss their appointment with the goal. Cancelo, with a tremendous shot from outside the area, made it 1-0 when the first eight minutes of the match had not yet been played. Of course, far from giving up their efforts, the Blaugrana redoubled their harassment of Agirrezabala's goal. Until Raphinha, after a penalty committed on himself, was in charge of converting the maximum penalty in an unappealable way to make the score 2-0.

The visitors, in an action poorly defended by the locals, managed to close the gap through Maguette Gueye. And they even came close to 2-2. But Cancelo, once again, came to the rescue, with a shot even further away than the previous one that touched Villalibre before crashing into the net, putting the score back at 3-1.

The final moments of the first half were dizzying. Raphinha, after a good assist from an Olmo perfectly enabled by an always incisive Adeyemi, scored 4-1 three minutes before reaching regulation time. And Lamine Yamal, after a maximum penalty caused by the speed of the German winger, had a possible 5-1 in his boots with a new penalty that Agirrezabala, taking advantage of the apparent lack of determination of the young Barça star, was in charge of saving in this case.

To start the second half, Szczesny was in charge of replacing Joan García who limped to the locker room after slipping while going to look for a ball that had gone over the baseline. From the club, however, they conveyed that it was more as a precaution than anything else and that it did not seem that the mishap suffered by the goalkeeper was really serious.

To avoid the possibility of new scares appearing, Barça chose to defend itself by attacking Racing's goal again and again. A good bet, until Szczesny made his life difficult with the ball at his feet too close to the goal line and led to Zabir scoring a 4-2 that made the visitors happy again. For a short time, yes.